Example sentences for: jockeying

How can you use “jockeying” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The last month has been consumed with especially intense jockeying and speculation about the leadership hierarchy.

  • According to Byrd, everyone--the White House, the media, the House--should stop jockeying and let the Senate be the Senate.

  • The ex-headmistress of an elite all-girls school indignantly argues that "education is not a country club" and disdainfully describes mothers jockeying to make play dates with the offspring of Katie Couric.

  • These sites are jockeying to build "brand names in the new millennium" (NYT), by hotly pursuing tactics that "would be, in any normal business, ruinous" (WP).

  • The reaction within hacking circles: vigorous jockeying for credit.


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